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...raids into Russia have been made by Miss Dorothy Thompson (now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) and H. R. Knickerbocker, both for the New York Evening Post.* But the most spectacular recent bit of U. S. newswork in Red Russia was the extraction from Soviet "Dictator" Josef Stalin of the first interview he has ever granted to the Occidental Press (TIME, Dec. 1). Hero of this scoop was Correspondent Eugene Lyons of the United Press. Last week the United Press proudly relayed Correspondent Lyons' story of his story, harking back more than a year when he began his siege of Stalin...
...Well that cleans that up," came back Groucho, and so the interview began. The brothers, casting off their stage characteristics, but still sprinkling humor in their remarks, freely talked of their lives and their views on the theatre Strangely enough, the head spokesman was Chico, of the inimitable Italian accent, the oldest of the four...
...teeth as Roosevelt's and, like Roosevelt's, overshadowed by his shaggy mustache. He speaks slowly . . . with broad, oriental gestures. . . . His mind seems automatically to organize its materials into simple forms and words comprehensive to any working man. . . . Stalin and [War Commissar Clemence] Voroshilov [present during the interview] addressed each other by the familiar 'thou'. . . . Intimacy and informality pervade [Stalin's] entire establishment . . . immaculately clean and hushed as a library, contrasting in these respects with the usual noisy, littered Russian offices...
Apologizing for his refusal, up to last week, to be interviewed by any white foreign Correspondent, Josef Stalin genially remarked: "Interviews don't fit very well into my personal five-year plan." To make amends, he motioned Correspondent Lyons hospitably to a typewriter, and while the interview was being typed, plied him with sandwiches...
Toscanini characteristically made no reply. In the six years he has conducted the Philharmonic, Toscanini has never given an interview, never explained his musical methods or described his diet. "I speak," he tells his friends, "a universal language. If the public cannot understand . . ." and he will shrug his shoulders. But his attitude is known to be one of humility. He regards himself as the servant of the composer, holds every note important...